"No apology for delay".That's telling us. No sense in getting ideas above our station, eh?
Work on the deck (for the east patio) inches forward. Progress is slower than expected, but GF wants it to be right! 
Gorse Fox was told to take a photo of his study as evidence that it has been cleared and as a reminder as to how it should be kept.
Shadow Chancellor George Osborne said: "John Prescott loses his department but keeps the trappings of office - including the car, the salary, and the two grace and favour homes.
"Add it all up, and the taxpayer is going to be paying more than a quarter of a million pounds a year. If you're looking for ways to cut waste in government, you can start with John Prescott."
Ms Hoey, a former sports minister, said she was "surprised" and "disappointed" that Mr Prescott was still in the Cabinet.
"I think people will want to ask what on Earth he's going to get paid for, what's he going to actually do," she told BBC Radio 4's The World at One.
Gordon Brown has doubled the NHS budget, but its productivity has hardly changed. Money, we now know, was not the answer. This system, almost unique to Britain (though Cuba has something like it) is a failed model.
There is the cost of the ageing population, and medical technology. With more focus on the 'work-life balance' and a 48-hour week coming in 2009, health work will be seen less as a vocation, more as just a job. A growing proportion of female workers in healthcare will demand more part-time working. It all means a larger workforce just to do the same volume of work.
The point is that central planning simply doesn't work, either in terms of cost efficiency or in delivery of the services. What I think that we would eventually see is more smaller, local hospitals; the re-emergance of the cottage hospital, if you like. This is because a smaller facility would require far less capital expenditure to build, would be easier to manage and would be more responsive to local needs.This should be funded
Treatment would be paid for by private medical insurance. Most working people can afford £50 a month (especially if NICs were totally abolished, which it should be, and if my commensurate plan of bringing in a £12,000 Personal Allowance were also implemented).
"But what about the poor?" I hear you scream, "will they die like rats for want of a credit card?" No, for this is where we look at the alternatives. As part of unemployment benefits, the government will pay your health insurance premiums for you (as NI was essentially supposed to do). They will not pay it to themselves, they will pay to a private company, who will be chosen by you (or your existing supplier if you had one) so that you know that your premiums will actually go towards providing healthcare...
If someone should be left without medical insurance, then the solution is simple. If they need medical treatment, they will simply pay back the charges over x years, paying a monthly amount until the debt is paid off. If you can get free credit with a new sofa, then I see no reason why the same thing should not be the case with medical care.
A Dutch driver who was driving along a motorway at just 6mph was pulled over
The officer... jumped out of the car and ran after the slow car before jumping in the passenger's seat and ordering the driver to pull over.
Margaret Beckett, the Environment Secretary and the minister in charge of Labour's response to global warming, is also under fire for regularly ordering the aircraft, based at Northolt, near London, to fly to East Midlands airport, near her home in Derby, to pick her up for Government trips.
Environment Secretary Margaret Beckett took 106 RAF flights between 2002 and December 2004 - many to East Midlands airport, near her home in Derbyshire.
Conservative transport spokesman Chris Grayling accused ministers of using the planes as a "private taxi service".
They found a 30-minute snog could dampen the body's allergic reaction to pollen.
Test showed it relaxed the body and reduced production of histamine - a chemical cell given out in response to allergens.
These bricks cut into the wall, by The Kleve, show the levels to which the flood waters rose in some of the great floods that have hit Worcestr over the years.
It was a lovely warm spring evening and too nice to sit in the hotel. Gorse Fox's colleagues were scattered amongst the local hotels and villages... so he decided to eat alone after a walk by the river.
